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Photograph of La Puente Valley Woman's Club
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La Puente Valley Woman's Club

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“La Puente Valley Women's Club is a women's club building located in the La Puente Downtown Business District of La Puente, in eastern Los Angeles County, California. It is a member of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.”

Wikipedia article La Puente Valley Woman's Club, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 200 N. First St., La Puente, 91744
  • When was it listed? April 1999
  • Category. building
  • Census division. East San Gabriel Valley
  • Architectural style. American Craftsman
  • National Register reference number. 99000482 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1894 to 1982

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering La Puente Valley Woman's Club, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet covering La Puente Valley Woman's Club, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

410 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 410 fires within 5 miles of La Puente Valley Woman's Club between 2005 and 2020, burning about 353 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 51 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined251
Arson/incendiarism51
Smoking33
Equipment and vehicle use33
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2008Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of La Puente Valley Woman's Club: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Geothermal, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alvardo Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
City of Industry PlantCalciumProducer
W. H. RussellClayOccurrence
El Monte PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lindauer CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lindauer DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Workman Family Cemetery0.7 miles1974
Workman Adobe0.7 miles1974
Temple Mansion0.8 miles1974
John A. Rowland House0.8 miles1973
Jonathan Bailey House5.3 miles1977
National Bank of Whittier Building5.7 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000482 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Los Angeles CountyAll 616 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.